There are years that are great years, years that are bad years, and years that just…are years. 2025 was one of those. I spent a lot of time with the spouse working on a house to sell, and while it … Continue reading →

I’m one of the first out there to note that my writing processes have changed over time, and differ from book to book. While other people have an established process, mine varies over time and type of book. Some of … Continue reading →

Some thoughts about digital personalities in my work (self-indulgent blather about my take on artificial digital beings, as I’ve written them) I’ve been watching the latest AI developments with a somewhat…oh, what word do I want? Not jaded, not cynic...

So far it’s been an open winter. We’ve had some snow, some frozen ground, but now things have warmed up a little bit, thanks to a series of storms brought in by an atmospheric river. We don’t get it nearly … Continue reading →

It’s a labored truism that after you’ve lived a certain number of years, time seems to speed up rather than slow down (mileage varies as to when that happens for each individual). Certainly, autumn seemed to sneak up on us … Continue reading →

Two horse blogs in a row…wow! Not to worry, I’m working on an essay about an Ernest Haycox Western that I hope to get up this week. “Trust” is one of those big buzzwords in horse training. We’re supposed to … Continue reading →

It’s been a little over a month now since that late afternoon when I went to Mocha’s field and discovered…she could barely walk. That moment when it became The Time I Knew Was Coming Far Too Soon. I’ve finally stopped … Continue reading →

Over the past five years, I’ve somewhat evolved a writing process that really worked for me, using Scrivener and Word together. Scrivener was where I put my worldbuilding details. Character notes. Oddball stuff like any weirdnesses about time, includ...

When you commit to owning a horse for their whole life, you know that there’s going to be That Day happening at some point. Sometimes That Day is a day early, sometimes it’s a day late. And sometimes That Day … Continue reading →

CHANGING COVERS One of the reasons I like being self-published is the ability to look at things I’ve put out there and say “well, that didn’t work. The foundation of the story is good, but it’s not resonating with readers…let’s … Continue reading →

Well. My current mood somewhat matches the cat's expression in this picture, and maybe a little bit of Marker's expression as well.(The cat's name is Goofy. Goofy likes to parade back and forth on the hitching rail for pets while I grain and groom Mo...

First of all, welcome to the new subscribers from the Liminal Fiction ebook list! I send this newsletter out once a month, sometime around the end of the month/first part of the next month. This newsletter is late in part because of...events, in part...

Hi everyone! The newsletter is running a bit late this time because, well...three trips for routine medical stuff over three weeks. One of those trips wasn't routine because I finally am getting my second cataract dealt with, except for the actual sc...

Yep, I got the trilogy finished and uploaded. Due to a glitch on the part of me, the publishing schedule is all out of whack. Instead of scheduling Crucible for prerelease on September 10th as originally planned, I released it on Draft2Digital and pu...

 Sometimes you just can’t keep a good character down. Mike Martiniere sandbagged me when I wrote the first Martiniere Legacy books, appearing as the five-year-old clone of Philip Martiniere in Realization. He kept nagging at me until I wrote his...